Richard Esling BSc  DWS AIWS FIDM

Richard is an erstwhile Member of the Institute of Leadership and Management, Member of the Institute of Wines and Spirits and Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing. Originally a trained and experienced Biological Scientist (BSc Hons), he has worked as a company director in the Wine Trade for 12 years (qualified and trained to Master of Wine level) and as a company director in International Property sales for 8 years.

For the past 18 years, he has been Managing Director of a Business and Management Consultancy operating in varying industries, including Wine, Engineering, Oil and Gas, Leisure Industry, Furniture retail industry, Land based industry, Estate agency, Retail, Construction, Manufacturing and others.  Projects are undertaken in the UK, Italy and France (Fluent French speaker and good command of the Italian language). Highly trained and experienced in Direct Marketing, Systems implementation, Business Processes, Financial Forecasting and Business Planning, Richard has had several years working with Government Business Advisory Organisations (SFEDI accredited) advising Small and Medium sized Businesses. He is also the Founder of the Arundel Wine Society (www.arundelwinesociety.co.uk) the Sussex Wine Academy (www.sussexwineacademy.co.uk ) and Chateau Wine Tours (www.chateauwinetours.co.uk ).

Tina Morgan BA CertEd

Tina is a travel PR specialist with 10 years experience in a leading agency at Account Director level, followed by more than 9 years as a Consultant. During this period she has established excellent contacts in the media with writers on national and regional newspapers and magazines, plus key freelance writers and the business travel media. Clients have included prestigious companies such as Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Reid's Madeira, Forte Village Sardinia, Regent Hotels, Concorde Hotels, BA Poundstretcher, Austravel, Abercrombie & Kent, Cunard and Star Cruises. Tina has been involved in projects in the UK, Europe and further afield and has broad experience of TV and other media as well as traditional Press.

Catherine Esling

A French National, Catherine has over 25 years experience in the European leisure and residential property markets. She has a unique combination of experience in both tourism and leisure, together with property letting and sales markets, principally in France, Italy and Spain. Catherine spent the early part of her career creating and running Westmoreland International Property Services, an overseas property sales company which sold properties to wealthy individuals throughout Europe, acting on behalf of development and construction companies. Subsequently, she has been a Director of different Tour Operators for 15 years, with turnovers up to £22 million.

Catherine has experience of sourcing and contracting services and products, including the development of new channels of distribution of holiday packages and negotiation with all key supplier accounts. She is a first class negotiator, with a wealth of experience and contacts in the leisure, tourism and property markets.

Nigel Standerline

Nigel is best described as a creative image consultant. Images can be drawn, photographed, sculpted, or be typographic. Whatever the medium, the message derived from any image should be legible and concise. Nigel's many years in the business of image communication have equipped him with the experience and expertise to visualise images for business and society. Having set-up and run a number of highly successful graphic design and photographic studios along the south-coast, Nigel currently concentrates on photography as the main image creation tool. These are, however, very often combined with inspiring graphics for a wide variety of clients.

Nick Fenmor Collins

With 15 years experience in developing and marketing online businesses, Nick brings a wealth of strategic knowledge to any business looking to grow their business.

Coupled with his traditional Blue Chip Sales and Marketing background, he has successfully run many businesses, both web based or otherwise. Nick specialises in using his skills to get the right people to your website, delivering the right messages and technical architecture to them to convert them from browsers to customers...making a real impact to your market share and bottom line.

Whether you’re a traditional or an ecommerce business, customers are searching for your products and services now. Nick’s website performance and marketing appraisal testing will tell you where you need to be to maximise your online potential.